I remember when I was very young (don’t actually remember I was like 2) when Katrina hit Florida and New Orleans and Bush left our people to starve and die, didn’t rebuild shit and allocated like a few million at most for aid.

Chad China response to natural disasters sending out the whole PLA and disaster teams to find every single citizen in sub-zero weather

  • olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml
    451·
    11 months ago

    not only the PLA, members of the party too, cpc isn’t just state burocracy like late sucp, they do active militant work and serve the people.

    lots of ground work when stuff like these happens are done by members of the party, another example were the covid containment efforts like blockades, vehicle and street washing, testing and so on, where done by members of the party

      • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        23·
        11 months ago

        When I was growing up, we had family friends that were CPC cadres. Their jobs involved going to rural areas to assess the material conditions and improve the lives of disadvantaged people. Allocating funding and helping construct/renovate schools and medical clinics in the boondocks all the way to going to remote mountain homes to help repair roofing or heating for elderly residents.

        In other words, praxis. Unburdened with means testing or bureaucracy, party members will travel 5 hours to a remote mountain village to go to an individual home, assess the situation and go like “oh hey yeah I’ll be back next week to fix the roof so it won’t leak when the rain gets too heavy, I can also add insulation so it’ll be warmer in winter :)” and request funding to build a clinic so they don’t have to travel 5hrs to get medical treatment.

        Once he came back with a fucktonne of peaches because the villagers he lived with for a few months physically stood in front of his car and wouldn’t let him leave without taking some form of present for improving the village.

        Anyway, twitter libs say it’s a failed ideology so idk, I guess we must abandon communism.

          • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            12·
            11 months ago

            Fairly standard for cadres (干部). 为人民服务

            A similar thing is shown in this video of a cadre who lived among the people in a rural Xinjiang village for over 4 years as a part of China’s poverty alleviation program saying farewell to the villagers.

            Eradicating absolute poverty in a country as large as China isn’t just throwing money at the problem, but addressing the material needs of the people and building infrastructure and utilities on a case by case basis, and that’s hard to do without embedding yourself in their communities for months to years at a time.

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    331·
    11 months ago

    Bush left our people to starve and die

    Weren’t they themselves killing people there? I think I read about the American Sniper guy killing people there.

    • TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.mlOP
      28·
      11 months ago

      I don’t know anything about that but I would not be surprised.

      I was born in Florida and lived there until about 2, so I just remember my mom telling me about the absolutely dystopian situation that was the southern US during late 2005. She remembers driving with me in the carseat as her beater Ford Focus was floating down the road lmao and that there was really no help for the people there after.

      I do recall also hearing something about people either killing themselves or the medical professionals just intentionally overdosing people on morphine because there was zero government assistance and it was the most humane thing to do (as opposed to letting them die of horrible infection, starvation, or whatever other injuries they sustained)

    • SexMachineStalin [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      the American Sniper guy killing people there

      That was actually a made up story by the man himself for clout to get the chuds excited. But he’s rip-bozo-grave now

      However, one South African girl was literally a few centimeters from taking a 5.56x45mm to the face from the National Guard as they were chased out of hiding from the rain